It has been this way for a long time, survived several release upgrades. Now when I decrypt it, I have to use gpg in one command to decrypt the key to a file, then use cat in a second command to pipe to cryptsetup, as such:

I have a netbook running 8.10 and an external hdd that is used for backup and encrypted/decrypted in the same manner. Plugging the external hdd into the netbook, the normal decryption process on the external hdd worked fine. So to me that indicates that something changed in 10.04 causing this to be an issue, as there were no issues with 8.10 and 9.10.

How can I narrow down the root cause?

mwjones

06-21-2010 10:44 AM

I decided to wipe the drives and restore from backups. This time, though, I used the -d option in cryptsetup. FML.